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NEW DELHI: Pointing out that China's rise will impact the globe and the region including India, National Security Adviser Ajit Kumar Doval has suggested that the change in the world order should be internationally approved and indicated that building military bases by China in the Indian Ocean Region (IOR) will be detrimental to peace in the area. "Global expansion of China is a reality, which is manifesting itself as a powerful economy , having powerful military and rising defence budget.

NEW DELHI: In a bid to speed up cleaning of the Yamuna, the National Green Tribunal has set timelines for the governments of Delhi, Uttar Pradesh and Haryana to demarcate the river's flood plain, close unauthorised industrial units and report on the state of common effluent plants. Delhi had been asked to demarcate the Yamuna flood plain and submit a compliance report to the tribunal, a fast-track environment court, according to officials. The state government informed the green court that it has not been able to finalise a detailed flood-plain map as some areas of the Yamuna flood plain fall within the limits of the NCR of Delhi and Uttar Pradesh.

NEW DELHI: Members of National Council (NC) and other office-bearers of different wings of AAP today decided to move seven resolutions, most of them mirroring the demands made by dissident leaders Prashant Bhushan and Yogendra Yadav . An informal meeting of AAP NC members held at YMCA was attended by almost 75 members and other office-bearers and came out with a 7-point "agenda" that would be put forward tomorrow when the National Council...

NEW DELHI: Describing the boundary talks with China as "positive", National Security Adviser Ajit Doval today said India has inalienable positions and the government will protect vital national interests. The comments by NSA Ajit Doval comes just days after the 18th round of talks here on the the vexed boundary issue between him and Chinese State Councillor Yang Jiechi . Doval underlined that there are areas of convergence between India and China despite the boundary issue.

NEW DELHI: Government has declared national mourning on Sunday as a mark of respect to the former Prime Minister of Singapore Lee Kuan Yew . National flag will be flown at half-mast throughout the country and there will be no official entertainment on Sunday, -- Lee's funeral day, an official statement said. Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be attending the funeral of Lee. 91-year-old Lee, Singapore's founding father who dominated the country's politics for more than half a century, died of severe pneumonia on March 23.

HYDERABAD: Home to 70 per cent of world's tiger population, India is ready to impart training and even donate the big cats to other countries as part of efforts for the conservation of the endangered species, Union Minister Prakash Javadekar said today. "We have the most advanced standard operating procedures on tiger conservation. We can even give the technology and the capacity building to other countries who want to conserve tiger," he told reporters here. "Thirteen countries are having tiger population besides those other countries which have forest cover that are suitable for tiger..we can impart training, capacity building and we are even ready to donate tigers if proper care is taken," Union Minster of State for Environment and Forests said, adding "we are in dialogue with (such countries)

NEW DELHI: President Pranab Mukherjee today said government servants are an "important part" of the socio-economic transformation of the nation as he met met probationary officers of two central services here. A group of probationers of the Indian Postal Service (IPoS) and the Indian P and T Accounts and Finance Service (IPTAFS) called on him at Rashtrapati Bhavan here. Speaking on the occasion, Mukherjee congratulated the young officers on having cleared one of the toughest competitive examinations in the country-- the civil services, which speaks of their academic excellence.

NEW DELHI: The National Green Tribunal has directed the Environment Ministry (MoEF) and Indian Bureau of Mines to submit a complete list of asbestos mines in the entire country with their status. A bench headed by Justice U D Salvi directed MoEF and the Bureau to inform about the present status of the mines, specifically with regard to their scientific closure and produce complete records in relation to it. "The MoEF and Indian Bureau of Mines shall file list of asbestos mines located in the entire country and their present status, particularly as regards scientific closure of such mines....

NEW DELHI: Clearing the decks for port development and water transport, cabinet on Wednesday approved inclusion of 101 inland waterways to the national waterways network and gave in-principle nod to the Sagarmala project. Cabinet also approved setting up of a special purpose vehicle to provide efficient rail evacuation systems to major ports to enhance their handling capacity and efficiency. Government wants to utilise the vast waterways network of the country to build a fuel-efficient and cost-saving mode of transportation and build an intermodal logistic supply chain.

NEW DELHI: Promising to overhaul the five existing National Waterways (NWs) within six months, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari today said Parliament nod will be sought on the Bill to convert 101 rivers across the country into NWs. In a bid to boost transportation for goods and passengers through waterways, the Cabinet yesterday gave nod to plans for enactment of a legislation for converting 101 river stretches across the country into National...